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Playa del Carmen, Mexico; since 2017, Portugal. An annual ten day and night electronic music festival, founded by Craig Pettigrew and Philip Pulitano. It is a global gathering of DJs, producers, partiers and industry professionals. BPM parties are hosted at multiple venues in the beach town Playa Del Carmen.
- Worldwide
Tomorrowland is a large-scale annual electronic dance music festival held in Boom, Antwerp, Belgium. Taking place within De Schorre provincial recreational park, it debuted in 2005, from an idea conceived by brothers Manu and Michiel Beers. [4] Since then, Tomorrowland has become one of the best known music festivals in the world.
- 400,000
- 2005–present
- Final two weekends of July
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Electronic dance music ( EDM) [1] is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals. It is generally produced for playback by DJs who create seamless selections of tracks, called a DJ mix, by segueing from one recording to another. [2] EDM producers also perform their music live in a ...
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- 2000–2009
- 2010–2019
- 2020–Present
The first Electric Daisy Carnival was held in 1991, and was first organized by Stephen Hauptfuhr. Philip Blaine—Pasquale's partner—made the deal to grant use of the name Electric Daisy Carnival in 1995 to Pasqualle Rotella CEO of Insomniac Events. Insomniac debuted their signature event, Electric Daisy Carnival, in 1997 at the Shrine Expo Hall in L...
In 2000, The Electric Daisy Carnival moves to Tulare, California, at the World Ag Expo. In 2001, Electric Daisy Carnival was held at Hansen Dam in Southern California, expanding for the first time to multiple stages: the Merry Go Round, the Fun House, Clown Alley, the Confusin' & Amuzin' Mirror Maze, Bassrush Arena and Cosmic Healing Temple. In the...
EDC Los Angeles had an attendance of about 185,000 people. Though tickets were starting at $60, some attendees paid over $100 per ticket. It drew criticism from local authorities and promoters after people under the required age of 16 gained entrance, and more than 100 ravers were hospitalized after a crowd stampede. A 15-year-old attendee, Sasha R...
In 2020, EDC Mexico in Mexico City was held at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez for February 28–March 2. It was announced that the 2020 festival would utilize more of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway grounds, with Rotella pointing out that the speedway had removed a large number of RV hookups that had made certain areas of the grounds unusable. The festiva...
- 520,000 (2023, 3 days total)
- Insomniac
- 1991–1993 (first incarnation), 1997–present (Insomniac)
Dec 30, 2019 · In 2014, Tomorrowland dominated the electronic music festival scene as the biggest festival of its kind in the world. In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the Belgian festival expanded to two ...
The following is an incomplete collection of music festivals that feature electronic music in the United States, which encapsulates electroacoustic genres and music using primarily electronic instruments such as electric guitar and keyboards, as well as recent genres such as electronic dance music (EDM). See also
Sep 24, 2023 · The Birth of The Rave in the 90s. The story of EDM’s evolution carries us back to a bygone era, the late 1980s and early 1990s, when a subculture emerged from the shadows, giving birth to what we now know as the electronic dance music (EDM) scene. These formative years were marked by a burgeoning movement that was, in essence, a revolt ...
